Healthy, French, Home-cooking, always fresh, (almost) no cream required!
This is about simple cooking for my kids away from home, family and friends and friends of friends. Not quite recipes, just inspiration.Often, no exact quantities, certainly no scientific potions, but a bit of magic and lots of love! and you could always ask for more details.
Share my love of cooking, enjoy the Pacific West Coast bounty and help me pass along the French Heritage from my Grand-mothers and my Dad who taught me.Salt and Pepper
Even when I don't say so, use Baleine sea-salt and fresh ground pepper from your Peugeot pepper mill, goes without saying!
Category Archives: Stuff
Sour Cherry Jam
Sour cherries (or griottes in French) make the best jam of all fruit, and that has got to be true because no one would bother with the small sour cherries at all thinking of the work of removing the stems and pitting … Continue reading
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Tagged cherry jam, food, griottes, jam, recipes, sour cherry, sour cherry jam
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Rare bright red lobster looks cooked but it still lives…
By Greg Burchell (from the National Post July 06, 2011) When a Quebec grocery store opened a shipment of lobsters, one of the crustaceans looked like it had already been boiled and was ready to eat — until it started … Continue reading
Hot Chili Peppers, get your BTU’s
The traveller’s guide to Mexico makes it all clear! “The Scoville scale measures their (chili peppers) hotness in heat units (SHUs). Cayenne, the chili Tabasco sauce is made from, ranks a respectable 3rd place behind the hottest chili known to … Continue reading
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Tagged bhut jolokia, cayenne, chili, Chili peppers, chipotle, food, habanero, jalapeno, serrano
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Vinaigrette dressing
This is a tricky recipe because it changes depending on what the vinaigrette is used with. So I will start with the basic ingredients and go from there. Quantities are more or less for one salad bowl. salt and fresh … Continue reading
Unusual duty-free items at Keflavik airport in Iceland
I had a quick connection in Keflavik, Reykjavik’s airport in Iceland on the way home from France. It is a very spacious and pleasant airport with bright halls and many shops. The variety is incredible and the offering quite surprising! … Continue reading
Old Fashioned Apricot Jam
Mamie Odette made apricot jam every year, and this right into her seventies and even maybe eighties. This is the only jam she would make, she thought that it was the only jam worth making at home. I don’t quite … Continue reading
Colorful dishtowels from France:Jacquard Français,Garnier-Thiebaut, Gerardmer
Made in France by Jacquard Français and Garnier-Thiebaut, old traditional manufacturers of table linens. I picked those dish towels for their amazing vibrant colors. It was an idea from my friend Jennifer and they make my kitchen look like it … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, culture, dish towel, food, garnier thiebaut, jacquard francais, kitchen, recipe, recipes, travel
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